Mendeley is a free application that allows you to streamline your literature review process. Using the software, you can annotate, highlight, and share journal articles with your team and colleagues. It also syncs your journal articles across devices for easy access.

A clear tutorial on the LaTeX typesetting system for creating documents. LaTeX is especially helpful for drafting manuscripts with many mathematical equations. Can be used for both proposals and journal articles.

R is a powerful and free environment that can be used for statistical computing. It contains many packages for data analysis and graphic generation that can be helpful while conducting research. This tutorial walks you through what R is and how to use it.